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Nationally-known disability rights advocate Carole Patterson takes on the world with her offbeat humor and brutal honesty in this profile of her challenging life as she prepares to marry a non-disabled man despite his family's concerns.

"Desert Magazine" published from 1937 to 1985, offered readers an appealing world of mirages, ghost towns and lost treasure. Its maps sizzled with life and adventure. They were created lovingly — and it turns out painstakingly — by an elusive mapmaker.

Cultural historian and co-author of the seminal, “An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles,” Robert Winter has died at the age of 94. His passing has left many in this vast, complicated city saddened.

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Cultural historian and co-author of the seminal, “An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles,” Robert Winter has died at the age of 94. His passing has left many in this vast, complicated city saddened.

Frank Lloyd Wright's interest in the Maya style was not an isolated case. The legendary architect's textile block houses cannot be understood independently of this wider phenomenon of cross-cultural appropriations.

More than a sharing of aesthetics, the multiple architecture exhibitions uncovered in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA offer insights into individual designers’ approaches to a similar building material, a cultural zeitgeist or mode of political thinking.

One of the principal players in the International Style of the 1920-30s, Richard Neutra was a driving force behind mid-century modern architecture that flourished in Southern California. One of his few surviving civic projects is in need of a facelift.

Judson Studios unveiled the world's largest fused glass window. To pull this major project off, the oldest family-run art glass company in the world, had to take their operations and this 12th-century art form into the 21st century.

The historic Rialto Theatre in Pasadena was once a prized community venue but in recent years has faced neglect. The Mosaic Church has leased the space causing community members to worry the theater will no longer be used for non-religious arts events.

When the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) launched the California-Pacific Triennial in 2013, it became the first California museum to survey the work of Pacific Rim artists. Its tradition of highlighting artists in the region continues this year.

Architecture may imply buildings and homes lasting decades, or even centuries, but the second California-Pacific Triennial at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) shows that it can also be a lens to understand history, obsolescence and memory.

The Arrowhead Springs Hotel is best known for being a celebrity getaway in the Hollywood glamour era, but its history dates back to the centuries-long presence of Serrano Indians. The clan has once again gained ownership of the land.